Victor Kassebeer

Jakob Juul

Sargun Oshana

Sort/Hvid

Copenhagen Opera Festival

4:48 PSYCHOSIS is the most iconic play by British playwright Sarah Kane. Shortly after completing it, she committed suicide in 1999. She was 28 years old. The text has subsequently been interpreted as her personal farewell to life. Now the text is being re-examined together with Glad Teater and their unique ensemble of professional actors with functional variations. It will be raw, physical and musical.

4:48 Psychosis

Sort/Hvid goes to electronic war with Joan of Arc in a new, radical opera about the iconic female army commander.

In a time when Europe is shaken by war, we melt together the icon Joan of Arc, our present time’s stories about the call of war, digital warfare, and radical power structures. On stage we find opera singers, modern dancers, and live music, in a deconstruction of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Giovanna D’Arco from 1845, by composer and sound artist Søs Gunver Ryberg. Staged by director Anja Behrens and scenographer Nathalie Mellbye, Jeanne d’arc becomes a musically carnal grip with an uncomfortable question, one which we all might have to answer in a near future: will you go to war for justice?

Jeanne D’arc

During Copenhagen Opera Festival we open the doors to Klub Kreatur with an explosive opera performance. We want to take you to church! But not the church you know. In the center stands Christ, as a transwoman, a resurrected Jesus coming back to preach a new gospel. A gospel about love, acceptance and radical inclusion.  

Director Sargun Oshana, actress May Lifschitz, opera singer Victor Kassebeer and the musician Hvad explore the figure of Christ from a queer perspective during a two week residency at Sort/Hvid. On the 21st of August they open the doors to their experiment at Klub Kreatur. Experience an opera performance, a one off-event that only happens that night.  

With the British writer and actor Jo Clifford’s controversial monolog “THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JESUS QUEEN OF HEAVEN” as a steppingstone, the team deconstructs biblical messages and rebuilds them from a queer perspective, where gender and Christianity flows freely. The angelic opera form is mixed with electronic tunes in a dissolution of the border between the holy and the profane. They work with questions such as: How can one challenge the gendered notions of modern Christianity? Does a holy sound without gender exist? Can we create a new and less gendered gospel? Join a ritual evening where not only Jesus resurrects, but so do our ideas of the holy.

KLUB KREATUR: A night with THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JESUS QUEEN OF HEAVEN